Triton

Triton, in Greek Mythology, a son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, who dwells with his parents in a golden palace at the bottom of the sea. He usually figures as an attendant on his father, a man in his upper parts with a dolphin's tail, and soothing the turbulent waves by blowing his shell-trumpet—his 'wreathed horn,' as Wordsworth calls it. The later poets speak of Tritons, in the plural, as a race of subordinate sea-deities, who are described by Pausanias as having sea-green hair and eyes, gills below the ears, human noses, broad mouths with the teeth of animals, scales on their bodies, and instead of feet a tail like that of a dolphin. Some have a dolphin's tail and horse's fore-feet (Centauro-tritons).—In zoology the name is given to the Newt, and to a genus of Gasteropods.